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Finding and following new channels you love
Friday, May 4, 2012
If you’re interested in
aerial silk
or
Rubik’s Cubes
or anything in between, we want YouTube to have a channel ready and always updating for you.
In our goal to help you find great channels and videos you care about, we created
Topics on Search
to narrow your search results using commonly-used phrases. We took this a step further by auto-generating whole channels of topics in the ‘Top YouTube Collections’ tab, giving you constantly updated and uniquely-focused channels. Now, you’ll start seeing these channels more broadly available around YouTube, like in ‘Recommended for You’ section of our channels page and on a video watch page.
So if you’re into surfing, you could find the
Big wave surfing
channel, get introduced and subscribe to the
NetworkA
channel, and then enjoy this video of
Garret McNamara
surfing one of Poseidon’s finest. Here’s what the channel looks like:
Lots of complex algorithms are working behind the scenes to give you the channel you’re looking for, for example, being able to tell when the word ‘Chicago’ means the
music band
and when it means the
movie/musical
. We’re still tweaking everything to make sure it works just right for you, so let us know what you think of the channels or learn more in our help center.
So when you see a channel “
auto generated by YouTube
” around the site, give it a browse to find whole collections of channels and videos you might like, updated everyday with the freshest and finest videos you’re sharing on YouTube.
Mur Viswanathan, product manager, recently subscribed to the
Parkour
channel and Palash Nandy, software engineer, recently subscribed to the
Brickfilm
channel.
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